La-La Land Records to release 4-disc DS9 soundtrack set!

Gee, I could usually tell within a couple of bars which composer it was. The orchestrations and rhythms that McCarthy, Chattaway, and Bell used were very distinctive. Bell was particularly easy since he routinely did his Trek scores in waltz time. I think he also used more French horns than the others. McCarthy was big on brass and strings and used pretty steady 4/4 time. Chattaway also used a lot of brass, but less solo trumpet, and less cello and bass than McCarthy; he also tended to make more use of long sustained notes and varying or syncopated rhythms, without the same kind of driving ostinati that the other two used.

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A few bars usually gave the composer away for me as well. Bell was especially easy because there's a particular harmonic progression that he beats into the ground. Chattaway's orchestrations are leaner than the other two, with more usage of solo instrumentation. McCarthy is just a big wall of sound.

In Enterprise, it got increasingly harder to identify the composer partly because their usual patterns were broken but also because there were more of them.

I have mine and I have to say it is fantastic! It is interesting to see that McCarthy did steal from himself, he uses almost the exact same cue from "The Die is Cast" in the Generations soundtrack. I thought that was really interesting

It is interesting to see that McCarthy did steal from himself, he uses almost the exact same cue from "The Die is Cast" in the Generations soundtrack.

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Other way around. Generations came first.

I once saw a quote from McCarthy saying that he reused the Generations cues to see if anyone was paying attention. Obviously a lot of us were. (Or maybe he meant he wanted to see if Berman was paying attention? Berman -- and Lauritson, I guess -- discouraged the composers from reusing themes and motifs, and maybe he was testing to see if they would even notice if he did. That's just speculation, though.)

It is interesting to see that McCarthy did steal from himself, he uses almost the exact same cue from "The Die is Cast" in the Generations soundtrack.

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Other way around. Generations came first.

I once saw a quote from McCarthy saying that he reused the Generations cues to see if anyone was paying attention. Obviously a lot of us were. (Or maybe he meant he wanted to see if Berman was paying attention? Berman -- and Lauritson, I guess -- discouraged the composers from reusing themes and motifs, and maybe he was testing to see if they would even notice if he did. That's just speculation, though.)

It is interesting to see that McCarthy did steal from himself, he uses almost the exact same cue from "The Die is Cast" in the Generations soundtrack.

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Other way around. Generations came first.

I once saw a quote from McCarthy saying that he reused the Generations cues to see if anyone was paying attention. Obviously a lot of us were. (Or maybe he meant he wanted to see if Berman was paying attention? Berman -- and Lauritson, I guess -- discouraged the composers from reusing themes and motifs, and maybe he was testing to see if they would even notice if he did. That's just speculation, though.)

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I always found it amazing how Chattaway was able to work in a Leitmotif for Species 8472 and The Borg in Voy's Scorpion and the Dominion in "A Call To Arms" on Ds9 all within the same time period and get away with it.

I always found it amazing how Chattaway was able to work in a Leitmotif for Species 8472 and The Borg in Voy's Scorpion and the Dominion in "A Call To Arms" on Ds9 all within the same time period and get away with it.

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I liked that Chattaway added those particular leitmotif's from Voyager briefly into future episodes too. It truly is a great shame that the composers talents were continually hampered by the producers, Trek's music should have been more than it was.

I always found it amazing how Chattaway was able to work in a Leitmotif for Species 8472 and The Borg in Voy's Scorpion and the Dominion in "A Call To Arms" on Ds9 all within the same time period and get away with it.

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I liked that Chattaway added those particular leitmotif's from Voyager briefly into future episodes too. It truly is a great shame that the composers talents were continually hampered by the producers, Trek's music should have been more than it was.

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Since they were both the 1997 series finales, I thought Chattaway might have been writing and recording them at the same time; "Call to Arms" aired about three weeks after "Scorpion".

Living in Canada and having to deal with customs I probably won't get this for a long time. It shipped last Wednesday and that's the last update on the tracker. Generally, when I order from the United States I almost end up forgetting about what I've ordered before it finally comes.

Living in Canada and having to deal with customs I probably won't get this for a long time. It shipped last Wednesday and that's the last update on the tracker. Generally, when I order from the United States I almost end up forgetting about what I've ordered before it finally comes.

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I'm in Canada too and my CDs were shipped on Wednesday as well and I just checked my tracking status and it says that is successfully cleared customs yesterday so I'm hoping to get it by the end of the week!

I'm in Canada too and my CDs were shipped on Wednesday as well and I just checked my tracking status and it says that is successfully cleared customs yesterday so I'm hoping to get it by the end of the week!

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No such update on mine :/

Yesterday was a Stat Holiday in Ontario so perhaps I'm just a day behind.

I've listened to the first disc so far. There's a lot of surprising material on here (like an electric guitar popping up in one cue). There's some wallpaper on the disc but overall, the selection of cues is very sensitive, much more so than the TNG set.

Not long finished listening and I'm astounded that we finally have this released, I was looking forward to it far more than the TOS collection. There's a touch of sonic wallpaper on the McCarthy disk but beside that it is gold to listen too, particularly the Chattaway and Bell material.